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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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462 W. Calle Franklin
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Thursday, June 20
5:30 pm
(doors open at 5:00 pm)
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CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina — On Thursday, June 20, members of the media are invited to attend and cover the Our bodies, our sports Summer 2024 “Take Back Title IX” Bus Tour in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This rally-style event will feature current and former athletes, coaches and prominent women’s advocates, including former UNC-Chapel Hill women’s basketball head coach Sylvia Hatchell, several NCAA Division I athletes from North Carolina, y Well-known former high school athlete and advocate for North Carolina women. Payton Mc Nabbwhose voice and story were integral in the approval of the state Equity Law in Women’s Sports.
Equal sports opportunity, privacy and safety for women and girls will take a devastating blow when the Biden administration’s illegal Title IX regulations take effect on August 1. The new Title IX rules eliminate protections for women, including stealing women’s equal opportunity and privacy. and justice and tricking female athletes out of their trophies, roster spots, playing time and resources and giving them to men. This does not enforce Title IX, it violates it. This was true before the Biden administration removed this rule, and it remains true today.
The bus tour is organized by Our bodies, our sports coalition, the nation first y only Coalition of women’s advocacy organizations from across the political spectrum fighting to protect women’s sports. The Coast to Coast Tour Bus features events open to the public, as well as press conferences, held in cities and towns across the country to build on widespread support to protect women’s sports.
EVENT DETAILS:
That: Our bodies, our sports Summer 2024 “Take Back Title IX” Bus Tour gathers in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
BECAUSE: Our bodies, our sports is traveling coast to coast this summer, activating fans across the country to take back Title IX and defend women’s sports. The new regulations enacted by the Biden administration violate Title IX, the statute they claim to enforce, by requiring schools to open women’s spaces to men.
OMS: The Our bodies, our sports Coalition formed in 2022 to defend women’s sports and the integrity of the women’s sports category. Our bodies, our sports is the nation’s first and only coalition of women’s advocacy organizations from across the political spectrum fighting for equal opportunity and justice in women’s sports.
This event is open to the public. Current and former student-athletes and teams of all ages, parents, families, coaches and other interested parties are encouraged to attend.
SPEAKERS THAT WILL INCLUDE:
- Coach Sylvia Hatchell, former UNC CHApel Hill women’s basketball head coach, sixth winningest coach of all time in women’s college basketball, the only coach to win national championships at three different levels: AIAW, NAIA and NCAA
- Payton McNabb, former North Carolina high school volleyball player who was seriously injured by a man on the women’s volleyball court, ambassador for the Independent Women’s Forum, advocate for the North Carolina Fairness in Women’s Sports Act
- Kylee Alones, NCAA 31x All American, 2x NCAA National Champion and 5x ACC Swimming Champion at North Carolina State University, Young Women for America Ambassador and plaintiff in Gaines et. Alabama. against the NCAA
- Madisan DeBosD1 track and cross country athlete at Southern Utah University whose relay team competed against a male athlete
- Selina Soulé, The 4x National Athletics Qualifier was forced to withdraw from the regional championships due to the men taking the women’s spots
- Macy Petty, former NCAA volleyball player and Young Women of America ambassador
- Evie Edwards, Former NCAA cross country athlete, elite female cyclist who has raced in over 300 world cycling events and, in 2017, competed at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, where a man took the women’s title, and is mother of a primary school cyclist.
- Irene Lorenzo, public action coordinator for the International Women’s Declaration USA
- Katie Blankinship, NCAA athlete on the Roanoke College women’s swim team, one of the women on the team who spoke out against allowing a biological man to join their Division III women’s swim team.
- carter satterfield, NCAA athlete on the Roanoke College women’s swim team, one of the women on the team who spoke out against allowing a biological man to join their Division III women’s swim team, and plaintiff in Gaines et al. v. NCAA
- + MORE!
**Multi box will be provided.**
**There will be media Q&A and opportunities for asides.**
Please direct all RSVPs and media inquiries to [email protected]. Press credentials provided on site.
BOTTOM:
RECOVER TITLE IX BUS TOUR SUMMER 2024
The tour began with two events in Pennsylvania: events in Whitefish, Montana; The Vegas, Nevada; Scottsdale, Arizona; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Columbus, Ohio; and from there, he traveled through Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas before reaching West Virginia. The bus continues its coast-to-coast journey throughout the month of June, holding events across the country.
The tour is based on the momentum that Our bodies, our sports The coalition has been built over the past two years advocating for women and girls, creating the largest and most ideologically diverse women’s movement of our time.
The Our bodies, our sports Coalition formed in 2022 to defend women’s sports and the integrity of the women’s sports category. Despite political and ideological differences, coalition members come together in gratitude for the generations of athletes who came before us and in defense of all the women and girls who will come after us.
Coalition members include the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), Women Champions, the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group, the International Consortium on Women’s Sports (ICFS), the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), the US chapter of the Women’s Declaration. International (WDI USA), Concerned Women for America (CWA), Young Women for America, Independent Women’s Voice (IWV), Independent Women’s Legal Center (IWLC), and Independent Women’s Network (IWN).
Our bodies, our sports believes that taking opportunities away from women and giving them to men does not enforce Title IX, but rather violates it. This was true before the Biden administration abandoned its new Title IX rule, and it remains true today.
Around the 52nd anniversary of Title IX, the “Take Back Title IX” tour will come to Washington, DC and hold a rally event on Tuesday, June 25 to commemorate the final annual celebration of the landmark sexual equality law before the presidency of the Biden administration. Illegal rewrite upends Title IX as we have always known it. The new regulations remove all sex-based protections in education, undermine women’s rights, and require schools to allow men to self-identify in women’s spaces, opportunities, and sports.
The final stretch of the tour takes place during the National Women’s Sports Week, initiated by the Independent Women’s Forum in 2022 and observed annually during the week of June 23. In recognition of Women’s Sports Week, June 23-29, the tour is planning two special events featuring musical performances in Washington, DC and Nashville, TN to celebrate female athletes (past, present and future) for their athletic participation. and his achievements in sports.
Click on HERE to see the next stops on the tour.
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